"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle"
HANNAH ARENDT - The Human Condition (1958)

Isabel-Helena Martí Castell

(Barcelona, 1964) Degree in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and executive post-graduate programme in Management (PDD) from IESE (University of Navarra). I am President and founding member of Sobirania i Justícia (Sovereignty and Justice), a civic society whose purpose is to make a qualitative, rigorous contribution to the momentous political debate we have started in Catalonia on creating our own state. I am organizer of the four editions of the annual international conference "Building a New State" held each autumn since 2011 in the La Pedrera auditorium (Barcelona). I am also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fundació Congrés de Cultura Catalana (Congress of Catalan Culture Foundation), which aims to promote study initiatives that serve to enhance Catalan culture and project it to the outside world. In addition, I am spokeperson for Reinicia Catalunya (Reinitiating Catalonia). This organization intends to gather all the grassroots initiatives that have already arisen from within civil society in order to stimulate the debate on citizens' participation and the process of founding a new independent state.